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Road ahead for Afghanistan
1 April 2014 4:41 AM ISTThere is only less than a week left for Afghanistan to undergo first of its two hugely important transitions. On April 5, the country will hold its...
The Big Fat Indian Offence
31 March 2014 4:16 AM ISTIndia is projected to have defence budgets of approximately $40 billion per year for almost two decades.India is the largest importer of military...
Road ahead for Afghanistan
30 March 2014 9:29 PM ISTThere is only less than a week left for Afghanistan to undergo first of its two hugely important transitions. On 5 April, the country will hold the...
IAF bats for base repair depots, but doesn’t rule out HAL as yet
27 March 2014 5:39 AM ISTFunctioning under the Maintenance Command of the IAF, the BRDs are spread across the country beginning with 1 BRD that was established in 1948 at...
Malaysian PM’s statement raises more questions than answers
26 March 2014 6:16 AM ISTA well-informed Indian Navy (IN) source said on Tuesday that the only corroborative evidence Razak had to support his statement are the pictures of...
Astra missile all set for testing
25 March 2014 4:27 AM ISTAstra, the beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) made by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is ready for testing from a...
Arjun MK II main battle tank may miss 2016 induction date
21 March 2014 5:42 AM ISTA key source in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said, the Israelis who customised the LAHAT (also a Hebrew word for...
‘1962 Sino-Indian border war debacle result of army hierarchy’s command failure’
20 March 2014 5:35 AM ISTAt least, two former senior officers of the Indian army, who have held tactical, operational and strategic positions in the service sees the debacle...
Survival of the fittest!
20 March 2014 4:02 AM ISTThe Kurukshetra ground has been chosen. The Mahabharata characters have waded in. Varanasi has been demarcated to be the modern-day battlefield of an...
Was Nehru’s China policy botched from the start?
19 March 2014 5:51 AM ISTBut the leaked portion of the joint report of now deceased Lieutenant General TB Henderson-Brooks and his Indian colleague, retired brigadier, PS...
India joins global search for Malaysian aircraft
14 March 2014 5:34 AM ISTThey were ostensibly searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight that went missing late last week while flying over the South China Sea.By...
Governing the virtual world
3 March 2014 6:14 AM ISTEver since Julian Assange and Wikileaks faced ‘denial of service’ from US-based internet entities and then Edward Snowden revealed the scope and...